New mining policy a ‘short-term solution’

AN ALLY of President Benigno Aquino III said Executive Order (EO) 79 should not be treated as a substitute to a new law on mining as this only provides a “short-term solution.”
House Deputy Speaker Erin Tanada said the executive’s new mining policy should instead make the passage of the House of Representatives’ proposed Alternative Minerals Management Bill even more urgent.
“What the Executive has given us here is a starting push, but he cannot do our work for us. Legislation is Congress’ function and beyond even the President’s awesome powers,” the House leader said in a statement.
Malacañang released on Monday EO 79, which prohibits the state from granting new mining agreements until a new legislation on revenue sharing schemes and mechanisms is passed. It seeks to boost government revenues through the five-percent royalty tax on new extractions to in areas to be declared as mineral reservations.
“If the mining industry wants to grow in this country, it has no choice but to participate in the crafting of that new law. Otherwise we are looking at the end of all mining operations by the time the last existing mineral agreement expires,” Tañada said.
The legislator allied with the ruling Liberal Party (LP) also urged the participation of the executive department in the crafting of the new legislation on mining.
Tañada noted that advocates for mining reform have common ideas with Aquino including the increase of excise taxes on new minerals.
“The EO has essentially adopted what we have been arguing for years: that the only way mining is an acceptable activity is if it makes us enough money to off-set the damage it creates,” he said.
The Alternative Minerals Management Bill is now pending before House committee on natural resources’ technical working group led by Ifugao Representative Teddy Brawner Baguilat Jr.
Baguilat has also called for the urgent passage of an alternative mining law to correct the flaws in the Mining Act of 1995.
The alternative mining bill sponsored by Baguilat increases liability and accountability of mining firms in case of environmental disasters and institutionalizes the ban on mining in areas mentioned in the EO, among other provisions.
The measure also proposes that government shall have at least a 10-percent share of the gross revenues from the development and utilization of mineral resources.
In case of mineral operations within ancestral domains, the contractor shall also allot at least 10 percent of the gross revenues as royalty to the indigenous peoples.
House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. vowed support to the Aquino administration’s direction on mining.
“Definitely the House will support the President’s philosophy with respect to mining. If that is what the leadership wants, then we will do that exactly. We will be backing the President’s version,” he said in an ambush interview.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2012/07/11/new-mining-policy-short-term-solution-231420

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